Zygmund L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1524) [videorecording] / interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Marcia Weissberg, June 28, 1989.

Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Zygmund L., who was born in Rokitno Szlachekie, Poland in 1903, one of eight children. He recounts his family's World War I experiences; moving to Łazy; marriage; the births of two children; German invasion; fleeing east; sending his wife and children home; traveling toward the Soviet Union; encountering Germans in Wodzisław; turning toward home; brief incarceration in Zawiercie; returning home; hiding during round-ups; deportation with his brother to Ottmuth; receiving packages from his wife; transfers to Fünfteichen and Markstädt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Buchenwald; sharing food with his brother; slave labor in camps as a brick-layer; transfer to a camp in Czechoslovakia; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; traveling to Munich; attending his brother's wedding in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; moving to Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; remarriage; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States in March 1949. Mr. L. discusses details of his father's businesses; the murders of his wife, children, mother, and other relatives in the Holocaust; permanent injuries resulting from his experiences; and his son's disinterest in his story.

June 01, 2002

Zygmund L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1524). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Zygmund L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1524). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)